Information Scientist - Synthetic Chemist / Natural Product Chemist

CAS uses intuitive technology, unparalleled scientific content, and unmatched human expertise to help companies create groundbreaking innovations. As the scientific information solutions division of the American Chemical Society, CAS manages the largest curated reservoir of scientific knowledge. For 116 years, it has helped innovators mine, assess and apply that information.

CAS seeks a Synthetic Chemist / Natural Product Chemist for the Content Operations team in Columbus, Ohio. This role applies scientific expertise, analytical skills, problem-solving, and language skills to build CAS’s world-class chemical information data. It involves curating high-quality research data from patents, journals, reports, books, proceedings, and dissertations.

The team curates data from 64 patent offices, thousands of journals, and publications in 180 countries across more than 50 languages. The global, diverse CAS team is endlessly curious and strives to make scientific insights accessible worldwide. Incumbents leverage education to index substance and reaction data in chemistry literature.

This position provides scientific and content knowledge, capabilities, insights, and solutions for other CAS functions. It fosters quality and productivity through learning policies, work habits, and tool usage from trainers. The role builds the CAS Content Collection with valuable chemical structure data.